1878 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–1–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainWalter Camp
Home stadiumHamilton Park
1878 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton    6 0 0
Yale    4 1 1
Columbia    0 0 1
CCNY    1 1 0
Stevens    1 1 2
Harvard    1 2 0
Penn    1 2 1
Rutgers    1 2 1
Amherst    1 3 0
Brown    0 1 0
Swarthmore    0 1 0

The 1878 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1878 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 4–1–1 record. The team recorded five shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 7 to 1.[1][2]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 2AmherstW 2–0[3]
November 9Trinity (CT)
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 2–0[4][5]
November 13at Trinity (CT)W 3–0[6]
November 16at Amherst
T 0–0[7]
November 23at HarvardW 1–0700[8][9]
November 282:25 p.m.vs. Princeton
L 0–1[10]

[2]

References

  1. "1878 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "2015 Yale Football" (PDF). yalebulldogs.com. Yale Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  3. "Football—College Championship Game Between Yale And Trinity". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 10, 1878. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. "Football—Game Between The Amhersts And The Yales—Yale The Victor". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 3, 1878. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. "1878 Trinity vs. Yale Football Program". Football of Yore. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  6. "College Sports—The Yale-Trinity Foot-Ball Game". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 14, 1878. p. 2. Retrieved March 27, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. "Amherst And Yale—The Second Match Between These Players A Draw". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 17, 1878. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. "Football—Yale And Harvard Teams—Play For The College Championship—An Exciting Game—Yale The Winner". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 24, 1878. p. 10. Retrieved March 27, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. "A Match of Ball Between the Colleges". The Daily Constitution. Atlanta, Georgia. November 24, 1878. p. 1. Retrieved March 27, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. "Princeton Defeats Yale". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 29, 1878. p. 8. Retrieved March 27, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.


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